FBR Report: "UPDATE: Kachin IDPs Once Again Prove Their Resiliency"

The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) is a multi-ethnic humanitarian service movement. They bring help, hope and love to people in the war zones of Burma (Myanmar) and the Middle East. Groups send teams to be trained, supplied and sent into the areas under attack to provide emergency assistance and human rights documentation. Together with other groups, the teams work to serve people in need.

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UPDATE: Kachin IDPs Once Again Prove Their Resiliency

Due to heavy fighting and military offensives conducted by the Burma Army into Kachin Independence Army (KIA) held areas, especially since August 2016, the lives of thousands of IDPs have been seriously disrupted. Some of the Burma Army’s artillery, mortar and air munitions landed inside and around IDP camps located north of Laiza, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) Headquarters. As a result hundreds of these IDPs fled to other, previously developed IDP camps while others crossed the icy river into China. The camps affected the most by the fighting were Maga Yang and Zai Awng. The majority of the IDPs from these two camps have fled to the Chinese border and begun building temporary living structures in an area called Sha It Yang, while some of these families felt they would be safer relocating further south to the handful of developed camps located just outside of Laiza ...

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